Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ball Committee, and Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt mingled in the five ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...
...price of castor seeds and linseeds, in which the company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...
...lost track of mergers, found it easier to count active partners of which there were 14 in 1928, 21 last month when E. A. Pierce absorbed the brokerage business of Philadelphia's Cassatt & Co. (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week the firm added three more partners and a handsome cotton brokerage business in the South and Midwest when it absorbed John F. Clark & Co. of New Orleans, Chicago and New York. That brought E. A. Pierce's total of branch offices...
Courtly little George Eumorfopoulos is actually a British subject, born in Liverpool 71 years ago. Until his retirement last August he was vice president of a firm established in London since 1819: Ralli Brothers. Ltd.. private bankers and importers of rape, rice, cotton, hemp from India. The Rallis were of Greek origin, too. Importer Eumorfopoulos lives in London in a handsome house on the Chelsea Embankment, well known to Orientalists all over the world...
...said were not to be paid in gold or its equivalent (TIME, Jan. 21). Domestic markets slumped ominously. Led by Homestake Mining (gold), which dropped $30 per share to $340, the stockmarket sold down steeply. Wheat touched the lowest level in nearly three months (95? per bu.) and cotton sloughed off $1 per bale...